I was using Xapian with iplaywow for a while and it worked well. I've
got some Erlang that builds the data files that the import tool uses.
To pull results, I simply executed the command line query tool.
Kevin Smith wrote an Erlang client library for Sphinx that's worth checking out.
http://github.com/kevsmith/giza/
# Nick Gerakines
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Robert Raschke <> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Jarrod Roberson <>wrote:
>>> Has anyone worked on a linked-in/port driver for Xapian ( full text indexer
>> written in C++ ).
>> Is anyone interested in working on such a thing? I really think Erlang
>> would
>> be a perfect network front end for Xapian.
>> I have a Python/Twisted server that front ends Xapian, but I want it to
>> scale better and Erlang will do that well.
>>>> Ooooh, yes, I've been toying with that idea for some time now, but never had
> the time.
>> I don't have much spare time, but would be happy to pitch in if I do. I'm
> not a fan of linked in drivers, I much prefer port programs. When a port
> program crashes, there's soo much less damage.
>> Robby
>